So yeh, tell us you're favourite double bills and why. Any two movies that you can watch back to back that compliment each other in some way.

Firstly I'll go with Perfume and Ratatouille. Both films about beings with a sense so powerful it becomes their all consuming passion. It dislocates them from their respective species because they want to, neigh, are compelled on a biological level, to hold things to a higher standard. They become superstars but have to hide who they really are and yet in the end even the most fierce critics are moved to a place of transcendence by the protagonists creations even if the creative process was horrific.

Elitism is positing that your taste is equivalent to quality, you hate "Hamlet" does it make it "bad"? If you think so, you're one elite motherfucker.

Here's a couple of double bills that I've either seen in the cinema, or set up for friends of mine

Two movies released within a couple of years of each other that make use of black and white brilliantly. They also happen to be scarier than the sight of Kathy Bates nude: The Innocents, starring a gorgeous, MILFy Deborah Kerr and '63's The Haunting. (Also once watched a two-fer of The Uninvited and The Changeling with George C Scott that meshed together pretty well).

I saw these two together in some flea-bitten joint in London a couple of years back: The Ruling Class - With Peter O'Toole starting off the movie convinced he's God, but ending up pretty sure he might actually be Jack the Ripper instead. It's worth it for the song & dance sequences alone. Love it. & Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, another completely fucking barmy, overly-loquacious send-up of the completely fucking barmy British upper class. Adapted from an album by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member Vivian Stanshall, I can honestly say I've never quite had another cinema experience like it.

Perhaps a bit, if only for the uninitiated. Myself, I've steered cleer of most of Jason Statham's post-Ritchie work, so that double bill doesn't sound all that intriguing.

I'd add Burn After Reading and The Big Lebowski to the mix, two of the finest Coen Brothers-comedies yet. The characters are all, more or less, idiots, thinking they're onto something much deeper or, in the case of the Dude, knowing he is without really caring. There are many similarities between the two, and I, for one, will definitely try them back-to-back once I lay my grubby hands on a copy of the latest one.

Withnail & I coupled with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sounds rather ideal, too. A lot of the same themes, plus all the fine drink. Withnail has shotgun-fishing, Fear and Loathing has... well, lots. Fantastic films about drinking, and I suspect they'd make great viewing while drunk. Must try that.

I actually saw these as a double-bill in 1982, with my best friend from high school. He had already seen Raiders; I had already seen WoK. We talked one another into seeing the other as part of a long night out. Great fun!

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When I was a kid and would stay home sick from school I would watch The Princess Bride follwed by Inner Space. They just happened to be recorded back to back on video, but worked well as two vastly different fantasies.

Vegeta wrote:When I was a kid and would stay home sick from school I would watch The Princess Bride follwed by Inner Space. They just happened to be recorded back to back on video, but worked well as two vastly different fantasies.

Vegeta wrote:When I was a kid and would stay home sick from school I would watch The Princess Bride follwed by Inner Space. They just happened to be recorded back to back on video, but worked well as two vastly different fantasies.

Hahaha. I actually watched Finding Nemo, followed by Hellraiser on sunday evening. It made for a very entertaining evening.

It was fun going from "Awwwwwwwww, how cute" to "ugggghhh, how disgusting."

My first time watching hellraiser in at least 10 years, as I was showing it to my fiance who hadnt seen it, and it hasnt aged badly I was surprised to see. The reformation of frank is definately up there with some of the Thing practical effects. (And I got to see where a song sample came from that always bugged me, so that was nice closure "You want it? You want it? Well f**king HAVE IT!" Cue Homophobic Asshole by Senseless Things.)

Here's one I did yesterday: Casablanca followed by Play it Again, Sam, where Woody's alter-ego/guru is Humphrey Bogart. I reckon Tarantino must have yoinked that idea for True Romance but swapped Bogey for Elvis.

The other day I watched Dressed to Kill followed by Hannah and Her Sisters. These two films in fact don't have anything in common except Michael Caine but I wasn't aware he was in either of them so it was kind of like a really shoddy surprise double feature. But Dressed To Kill would go well with Point Blank or Psycho. I think De Palma must have been paying a little tribute to Point Blank with that scene of Angie Dickinson in the museum clacking her heels.